we are going to crush crooked joe biden. martha: tonight former president trump will address the issues. securing the border. getting rid of woke ideology. they are not after me, they are after you. no confusion. let let leading rivals unleash attacks. he is running on a lot of things he promised in 2016. chaos follows him. we can t be a country in disarray. path to crowning republican nominee starts here. i am going to be there. we are first in the nation because of me. we are america first again. [music] [ cheers and applaucheers welcome to des moines iowa, the last of three special town halls this week, days before the first in the nation iowa caucuses. i m bret baier and we are here in des moines. as we look outside it s cold it s brisk it s snowy but we are warm inside with a lot of questions from iowans. i m martha maccallum. we are with iowa voters some decided some undecided. some have been here more than one night. they look forward to questioni
that s a bus in new york city and behind that is trump tower. there we go. former president trump about to depart for closing arguments today in his civil fraud trial. the judge has barred him from speaking in court. he wanted to make his own closing argument. the judge said forget about it. so he has been known to talk to reporters on the way in. we re watching that. no buses or trucks, good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana: just us. that s all you get for right now. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we had a wild day yesterday. see how this one turns out. the fraud trial culminating as iowa casts the first votes in the presidential election. the former president was there last night for a fox news town hall and tried to assure voters his second term would not be focused on revenge. i m not going to have time for retribution. we ll make the country so successful i won t have time for retribution. our ultimate retribution is success. dana: bill melugin is
things, need a thick skin to be president. sandra: that s all for us. john: the story with martha in iowa starts right now. martha: good afternoon, everybody. via martha maccallum maccallum and this is the story live in freezing, snowy des moines, iowa, the center of the political world for the next few days during the iowa caucuses which happened on monday. today my camping trail interviews with nikki haley and ron desantis coming up on the story. but first, this. the pentagon says that the united states does expect iran-back to houthis will retaliate. that after the united states and allies carried out massive strikes last evening against the group in yemen. take a listen now to this new threat as articulated a short time ago, watch. this rally is the first to condemn this aggression against the republic of yemen last night. it is also a message to britain and the united states of america in particular that they will pay a heavy price for this aggression. these
america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: the pressure has been building on the biden administration to respond to one of tehran s many proxies in the middle east, houthis are just one of them. since mid november the houthis have been attacking ships in the red sea with impunity until now. the underlying question will iran, which backs the houthis, get this message? it s a bit ironic coming from a houthi spokesperson giving they are using the words brutal aggression after we ve seen 20 attacks from houthis against international commercial ships, u.s. vessels and others in an area like the red sea that sees 15% of the world s commerce roll through it. last night what you saw was the united states in a coalition take action against the houthis that have launched repeated strikes against the international flow of commerce that we see on a daily basis. dana: team coverage, former centcom spokesman on the military challenges and mike tobin on how all this is impacting oil
perino along with judge jeanine pirro jesse watters geraldo riveraed jr. and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five the hunter biden legal drama coming to los angeles today. the first son just leaving the courthouse after pleading not guilty to nine criminal tax charges for dodging $1.4 million in taxes and his trial is set to begin on june 20th. it is two months before hunter s dad is expected to take the stage at the dnc. if hunter is found guilty he could be a convicted tax felon while the dnc is taking place. instead of paying his fair share hunter withdrew $1.6 million from atms, he spent nearly 700,000 on payments to various women. nearly 400,000 on clothing and accessories and close to $200,000 on adult entertainment. i m not even sure what that means greg. so it comes after a media circus when he crashed his own contempt house hearing in an obvious political stunt despite all the attention on hunter, democrats will not say whether he s a l